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GreenFaith announced today that Sister Carol De Angelo, a Sister of Charity of New York, and SC Coordinator of Special Projects, has been named a GreenFaith Fellow and will join the 2012 Class of the GreenFaith Fellowship Program.  The Fellowship Program is the only US comprehensive education and training program to prepare lay and ordained [...]

Pope Benedict XVI called for delegates attending this week’s U.N. climate change conference in South Africa to craft a responsible and credible deal to cut greenhouse gases that takes into account the needs of the poor  writes  Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press An expected 25,000 government officials, lobbyists and scientists will attend the two-week conference that opens Monday [...]

VincentCare in Victoria announced that disability employment service Ozanam Enterprises is partnering with Mornington Peninsula Shire (south of Melbourne) and Solo Resource Recyclers to help reduce landfill in the local area through e-recycling. Ozanam Enterprises has recently started receiving electronic waste via Solo Resource Recyclers from Council transfer stations. Staff, who have a disability, break [...]

According to the  National Catholic Reporter  Cincinnati Sister of  Charity  Paula Gonzalez could be the patron saint of scavengers. For Sr. Paula Gonzalez, 78, recycling is a spiritual practice. She views yard and garage sales as the compost bins for all of the stuff produced by industrial society — sofas, toasters, old TVs and end tables [...]

The bottled water system! For an lively view of how the system works watch this YouTube video seen by over 1.5 Million people. So you think you are a savvy consumer… who pays thousands of times what a product is worth? “When you understand the system you see lots of solutions.” Related FAMVIN Posts:Sheila Gilbert- [...]

The Sisters of Charity of Cinncinati have posted brief videos on YouTube . The first is a short video about the history of the Sisters of Charity during the  Civil War and War today. The Sisters of Charity also celebrate Earth Day 2011. Related FAMVIN Posts:Sister of Charity – Patron Saint of ScavengingSisters of Charity [...]

A Vatican-appointed panel of scientists has reported what climate change experts have been warning for years: the Earth is getting warmer, glaciers are melting, and urgent measures are necessary to stem the damage. “ We call on all people and nations to recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic [...]

Deborah Fries, Editorial Board Member, Terrain.org reflects on her experience of  Maris Stella Retreat and Conference Center (New Jersey Sisters of Charity)  and her encounter with “ the Jersey Girls of the Catholic Church, who act on what they believe.” The following excerpts are taken from her website which includes an interview with Regina Bechtle, SC. I am [...]

Among the Lenten daily programs Vincentian may find thought provoking   “40 days with the least”  (pdf) as a way of engaging with Fr. Greg Gay’s Lenten Letter. A 40 day carbon fast approaches the 40 days from the viewpoint of an ecological awareness. “Live these forty days in consciousness of the state of health of [...]

The Desertnews writes… “Being without a home doesn’t necessarily mean living without a garden, as some of Utah’s homeless are developing their green thumbs in a space between the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall and Weigand Homeless Day Center. ”It’s important because it gives our…